elisa freschiHow to organise translations or editions of the same text in a bibliography? – elisa freschi https://elisafreschi.com These pages are a sort of virtual desktop of Elisa Freschi. You can find here my cv and some random thoughts on Sanskrit (and) Philosophy. All criticism welcome! Contributions are also welcome! Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:06:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How to organise translations or editions of the same text in a bibliography? https://elisafreschi.com/2018/10/23/how-to-organise-translations-or-editions-of-the-same-text-in-a-bibliography/ https://elisafreschi.com/2018/10/23/how-to-organise-translations-or-editions-of-the-same-text-in-a-bibliography/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:11:22 +0000 elisa freschi http://elisafreschi.com/?p=2885 Suppose you want to refer to n-translations or editions of the Rāmāyaṇa or of the Vigrahavyāvartanī, what would you do? I can think of two solutions

  1. You refer to only a couple of translations among the many texts you refer to. In these cases, I would order them (just like I do for all texts) according to the name of the editor–translator.
  2. You write a study specifically on a given text and need to quote many translations or editions. In these cases, I would suggest having a separate section of your bibliography dedicated to just that. Within the separate section, I would again order editions and translations according to the name of the editon, but one could also use the name of the author, if he is a historical person. I would strongly discourage from using the name of authors like Vyāsa for the alphabetical order.

What do readers do?

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